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Summary: Weird Civil War delves into the peculiar history and ghastly legacy of the bloodiest period in American history, featuring the era's most gripping tragic tales, fascinating facts, spooky scenarios, and eccentric characters. This brand-new volume—which compiles the most compelling Civil War stories from the bestselling Weird series—will excite precocious history students, Civil War buffs, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SCELeach, Maria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Pub. Co. 1958
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 LEAMoran, Mark
Summary: Travel guide of sorts to an array of local legends, folklore, and secrets in the United States. Includes characters, roads, abandoned sites, and roadside attractions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUBMAN, HARRIET SERLuckhurst, Matt.
Summary: Retells the tale of giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, whose appetites for pancakes grow so large that they leave their childhood home to find their pancake fortune in the great big world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 LUCShenkman, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SHEMiller, Bobbi.
Summary: Miss Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind and Fireyes the panther engage in an epic wrestling match before becoming "great and glorious" friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 MILMiller, Bobbi.
Summary: An accidental encounter with a thorn bush on his way to the spring dance has Davy Crockett kicking up his heels and out-dancing even the audacious Miss Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 MILKellogg, Steven.
Summary: Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELBraun, Eric
Summary: Super-cowboy Pecos Bill leaps onto the back of a monstrous cyclone and rides it like a bucking bronco, creating, in the process, the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BRAGleeson, Brian.
Summary: Recounts the exploits of the legendary giant logger and his big blue ox Babe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rabbit Ears Books 1990
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Summary: Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1986
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Summary: Davy Crockett battles Snag, a fierce gator, from destroying steamers along the Mississipi River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MEIGregg, Andy.
Summary: Tells how Paul Bunyan saves his loggers from a terrible winter and in the process creates the Mississippi River and turns his ox, Babe, blue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: River Road Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GREHarrison, David L. (David Lee)
Summary: An introduction to tall tales about the giant lumberjack from the north woods, as told from his own perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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Summary: "The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 MOOSeaton, Cat
Summary: "Sibylla is a young woman who's always craved adventure. So when a witch tells of a rather unusual betrothal in her future, she takes it well in stride. But she never guessed that the prophecy would be quite so literal, until the day a giant, magical bull appears at her door to ask for her hand in marriage. But the real question is: is the Black Bull of Norroway a man, or a monster?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NORThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020